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Michel Houellebecq (real name Michel Thomas), born 26 February 1958, on the French island of Réunion is a controversial, award-winning French novelist. He left France and lived in Ireland for some years. He currently lives in Spain but has said that he does not intend to stay there indefinitely.
Houellebecq worked as a computer administrator in Paris before he became the so-called “pop star of the single generation”. Gaining fame with the novel Extension du domaine de la lutte in 1994 (translated into English by Paul Hammond as Whatever), he won the 1998 Prix Novembre with his novel Les Particules élementaires (translated by Frank Wynne) and published as Atomised (Heinemann, UK), or, The Elementary Particles (Knopf, US). The novel became an instant “nihilistic classic”, although the New York Times described it as, “a deeply repugnant read.” The novel won Houellebecq—along with his translator, Frank Wynne—the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2002.
The author’s following novel, Plateforme (2001), earned him a wider reputation. It is a romance, told mostly in the first-person by an aging male arts administrator, with many sex scenes and an approbation of prostitution and sex tourism. The novel’s depiction of lif...
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